Love city builders like the classic Sim City? You may want to keep a close eye on Cytopia, a free and open source retro pixel-art sim. It's still somewhat early on in development right now so it's not exactly fully playable but still worth a shout-out, I'll be keeping a close eye on it to follow along for you.
Current Features:
- Custom UI System, based on JSON. Highly moddable
 - SDL2 based rendering engine written in C++
 - Camera panning, zooming, relocating
 - Terrain manipulation
 - Procedural Terrain Generation
 - Pixel-art graphics made by graphics team lead by Kingtut 101
 - An original soundtrack, ambient noises, and sound effects made mostly by MB22
 - A Qt based tile editor for editing TileData JSON files
 
Planned Features:
- Biomes
 - OpenGL Renderer
 - Gameplay mechanics
 - In-Game Mod downloading mechanism
 - Android / iOS
 - Scripting language for mods (like LUA)
 
Available under the GPL on GitHub.
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